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No, no failsafe advantages here! As men look at it, it may seem that we have an advantage because we have been given so much more. But... with the more given, more is required. God is always fair in a way that many men cannot understand. This is what the scriptures mean when they say He is not...

"O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps." Jerem 10:23 But... even with Jesus available to lean on and the Holy Spirit to lead him, man continues to try to direct his own steps and of course to fail. "There is a way that seemeth...

Many people will 'serve' God as long as it is easy on their pocket book and on the life style they enjoy. Sometimes like the rich young ruler, they may open their mouths to ask the Lord, 'What else do I need to do?', but like him there is a limit to what they are really willing to do. They put...

In addition to genuine lovers of God who needed the change and were led by Him to better places, I do not doubt that some people used the excuse of what was happening to more easily do their own thing openly without God and get away with it.

Yes and who dwells within our heartfelt praises?

"But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel." Psalm 22:3 Does this not also mean the praises of the Church?

The only way to really even approach the point of giving everything is to ask Him for help... and He will help when and if we do! "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:" Matt 7:7 We cannot stop asking before until everything in the way...

"Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak." Matt 26:41 We really are able to 'go up' only by going down. We can by no means be lifted up higher by grabbing hold of our own bootstraps and I saying I can do this. Rather with publican...

There are always people wanting to lead others by the nose toward the ditch which they do not see themselves. The reasons it has happened and continues to happen are many, but the ultimate problem is a lack of love for God by both leaders and followers.

Indeed! Even as various translators have rephrased the very same original words written by inspired men, why could not an anointed person today say the rephrase Carry on as you think you must!

I was speaking about the advantage we should have in having the Holy Spirit lead us. The law of Moses was intended to prevent what happened to Naboth by not killing a man for a crime based on the testimony of only one other man. It did not work well, because too many men loved mammon in that...

You are the one who concluded that the verse in Matthew 18:20 was referring to church discipline and made the connection to the need of not less than two witnesses under the law of Moses. I was simply pointing out the difference for Naboth if instead of having his case judged based on the...

I did not say I wanted to debate/discuss. Reread what I wrote.

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When God speaks, it is the Word of God: That is, when it comes out of His mouth it is His Word. If is so simple, then why is there so much disagreement and argument about it? Is it possible that many, or even most, people who say they are hearing are really deaf? Or perhaps many people who can...

When you have a discussion with a person it would better to read and try to understand what that other person believes. Otherwise it is not really a discussion. When I was in college I had some professors who simply presented a lecture. They talked and we listened. There was no discussion. This...

While I understand how you are looking at it, I believe it misses what Jesus is. He is the Word of God. When John writes he says that the Word became flesh, not a book! Jesus is not the Bible. No where in the written scriptures does it say that He is. "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt...

The problem with the laws cited in Deuteronomy is in having two reliable and honest witnesses to establish the Spirit of the law. As we see with Naboth this is not always the case When Naboth stand behind his right to retain his own God-given inheritance he ran up against Ahab the king and...

Given that kind of belief, I really don't understand why you are even here on a forum like this.

What then is the purpose of someone born effectively on the wrong side of the tracks to try to cross over to the other side? What is the purpose of anyone coming to God in repentance if he was born without hope? Back to Solomon: "Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all...